The UN’s climate talks opened on Monday in Brazil’s Amazon basin with urgent appeals to keep fighting climate change, despite the US stepping back.
About 50,000 delegates are in Belem for the two-week Cop30 summit, battling the tropical heat and the challenge of keeping global co-operation on track.
Among some of the powerful voices at the summit are those of Indigenous leaders, who are demanding a greater role in decisions about how their lands are managed as climate change intensifies and industries such as mining, logging and oil drilling expand deeper into forests.
A day before the summit began,
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